[Accessibility_sig] Overstock.com accessible?

[Jon Gibbins (dotjay)]

Charlene Zvolanek wrote:
> Just a cursory review using the HTML Validator 0.8.3.3 for Firefox, reveals missing alt tags, depreciated tags, inappropriate attributes, tables that get closed without ever being open, javascripts with no type designation... 
> I would say that overstock.com would not meet the standards. 1199 errors reported.

10 errors, 1189 warnings (mostly unescaped ampersands), 406 access 
warnings, 1 JavaScript error, 12 JavaScript warnings... and that's just 
the home page. Not a good start, eh?

Missing alts, even on their logo and pecial offers! No heading elements. 
Form fields not marked up as well as they could be. No indication of 
location when tabbing through a page that is a sea of links. Turning off 
CSS is quite fun. Reliance on JavaScript in areas, including search results.

Anyone else think that this is a "ha ha, we're better than Target" 
marketing approach?


Jon

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